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What is special about all the elements listed in a vertical column or group on the periodic table?

The electron configuration in the outer shell is the same for all of the elements in the same column. This results in some similar chemical properties between these elements in the same group (column).


What is in the common between all the elements in the same column in the periodic table?

they all have the same electrons.


What are elements in the same column of periodic table called?

Elements in the same column of the periodic table are called "groups" or "families". They share similar chemical properties due to having the same number of valence electrons, which influences their reactivity and behavior.


In the periodic table elements in the same column have?

Elements in the same column have similar chemical properties. They are from the same family.


What is a Column in science?

This is probably a reference to the periodic table of the elements, which has columns. All the elements in a given column have the same configuration of valance electrons. There is a column of noble gases, a column of halogens, etc.


What is the common between all the elements in the same column in the periodic table?

Elements that are contained within the same column in the periodic table are known as a group. All of the elements in the first group of the table have one electron in their outer shell.


What are three things that elements in the same column have in common?

there all metals, or nonmetals


Are the numbers of neutrons the same for elements in the same column on the periodic table?

No. It is not the same. the number of valence electrons are same for the elements in the same column (group).


What do all columns have in common?

All elements a given column have the same number of valence electrons.


What does elements in a column of the periodic table have?

Elements in same column have same number of outermost electrons. It determines chemical properties.


Why are the elements in the same column on the periodic table commonly reffered to as a family?

They all have the same number of electrons


What are elements in the same column of the period called?

row or column